He was the only famous major general in Chinese history who became famous in World War I, and at the age of 16, he put on armor and bravely killed the enemy, becoming a "winning official" who made the enemy army fearful, and also the backbone of his own army, but also a minister of the imperial court and a pillar of the country.
His name is Yue Yun, the son of Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty who is loyal to serving the country, a major general Yue who everyone believes in the Yue family's army, a Changsheng general in the hearts of the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, and a soul under the knife who has suffered thousands of strange wrongs and made those who hear it cry!
In the third year of Shaoxing, Yue Yun, who was only 16 years old, accompanied his father on a campaign and successively led 30,000 Yue family troops to block the 100,000 army of the Jin State in the Battle of Six Counties, the Battle of Haocheng, and the Battle of Yingchang. These battles not only defeated the morale of the Jin State army, but also made the Jin State general Jin Wushu helplessly sigh: "Major General Yue is a genius from heaven!" ”
However, Yue Yun, who had repelled 100,000 Jin soldiers for the Southern Song Dynasty, was framed by traitors after Ban Shi returned to the dynasty, and the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which were originally close at hand, had to surrender to the Jin State due to the obstruction of the conservatives of the Southern Song Dynasty.
What is even more shocking is that Yue Yun, who returned from a complete victory, was not only targeted by Emperor Gaozong of Song everywhere, but also sentenced to "behead and show the public" in the "trumped-up" unjust case planned by Qin Huan.
Such a will makes people have to wonder, what did Yue Yun, who returned in triumph, do so that Emperor Gaozong of Song could not tolerate him so much? Why did Yue Yun, who was originally not guilty of death, have to die? What kind of intrigue is hidden in it?
As a child born during the period of national decay and social turmoil, Yue Yun was forced to separate from his parents from a young age and grew up under the care of his grandmother, but due to the constant war, Yue Yun and his grandmother also had a very miserable life.
Yue Yun, who had been tortured by the Jin people since he was a child, saw with his own eyes how the army of the Jin State invaded the Southern Song Dynasty, how the soldiers of the Jin State brutalized the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, how the Southern Song Imperial Court was aggrieved and begged for perfection, and how the people of the Southern Song Dynasty fled in all directions.
As the son of the great general Yue Fei, Yue Yun had great ambitions since he was a child, and he vowed to help the imperial court and the people, drive out the evil-scrupulous Jin people, regain the dignity lost by the Southern Song Dynasty, recover the territories occupied by the Jin State, and allow the Southern Song Dynasty to regain the prosperity and glory of the Northern Song Dynasty.
However, Yue Yun's life history is actually "controversial" in history, and some scholars believe that Yue Yun is not Yue Fei's biological son, but Yue Fei's adopted son. However, judging from historical records such as "Yue Shaobao's False Testimony and Adjudication of the Case", "Brother Fu and Other Fuguan Provinces", Yue Yun is indeed Yue Fei's adopted son.
In addition, from Yue Fei's "attitude" towards Yue Yun, it can also be seen that the two are biological father and son.
Although Yue Yun grew up next to his grandmother, he has been practicing martial arts alone since he was a child, so he has good skills at a young age. At the age of twelve, Yue Yun was finally reunited with his parents, but Yue Yun did not enjoy a moment of fatherly and motherly love, and was arranged by his father to join the army.
Although Yue Yun was young at this time, Yue Fei was very strict with him. According to records, Yue Yun was angrily reprimanded by Yue Fei during a training, and Yue Fei even ordered to "kill" Yue Yun, what was going on?
At that time, the young Yue Yun went up the mountain to practice with the generals of the Yue family's army, because the Northern Song did not have a strong cavalry team, resulting in the Jin Guotie cavalry, the Northern Song had no way to fight back, in order to make up for the weakness of the Southern Song cavalry, Yue Fei was ordered to strictly train the cavalry.
Yue Yun grew up in the Jiangnan area, and when he was a child, he didn't have the opportunity to practice horseback riding at all, so in this drill, he accidentally "lost his front hoof". This was the young Yue Yun's first field exercise, and he couldn't help but feel afraid, the hand holding the whip when riding was shaking, and the army's war horse itself lacked training, so he lost control for a while and threw Yue Yun off the horse heavily.
The soldiers were worried about Yue Yun's injury, and hurriedly dismounted to help Yue Yun up, Yue Feiben watched from afar, and saw that the soldiers were so nervous about Yue Yun, and shouted at the soldiers on the spot: "Stop!" The soldiers were at a loss, so they could only stand silently in place waiting for Yue Fei's "lectures".
Looking at his panicked son, Yue Fei did not have the slightest bit of distress and love on his face, but gritted his teeth and glared at Yue Yun and asked, "Why is this here?" Yue Yun lowered his head because he was afraid to answer. Yue Fei ruled the army strictly, and the majesty in the army was very strong, so no one dared to speak out among the soldiers.
Yue Fei continued: "This is caused by not training hard at ordinary times! If the soldiers are like you, how can you resist the enemy army? Come man, drag him down, military law disposition! ”
According to Yue Fei's meaning, Yue Yun was going to be beheaded, and the soldiers all understood that Yue Fei was talking angry, and they all knelt on the ground to intercede for Yue Yun on the grounds that "the major general is young".
Yue Fei naturally didn't really want to kill Yue Yun, but he was angry that Yue Yun didn't work hard enough, if he didn't step up training on weekdays and "lost his horse's front hoof" on the battlefield, he would not only delay national affairs, but even lose his own life!
Seeing that the soldiers were begging for intercession, Yue Fei's anger also subsided a lot, so he ordered people to beat Yue Yun with a hundred military clubs to set an example!
From Yue Fei's extremely strict attitude towards Yue Yun, it was enough to see that Yue Yun was Yue Fei's biological son, and it was under Yue Fei's strict discipline that Yue Yun cultivated a good skill, which also laid the foundation for Yue Yun's later "invincible" record.
In the third year of Shaoxing, Jin Wushu led the army of the Jin State to invade, and Yue Fei was ordered to lead the Yue family army to resist, and Yue Fei also wanted to take this opportunity to recover the six counties including Deng Prefecture and Suizhou. At this time, although Yue Yun was only 16 years old, he was already a well-trained soldier, so he also followed Yue Fei to the battlefield, and it was in the battle of the six counties that Yue Yun won the title of "winning official".
In the battle of Suizhou, Yue Yun showed great bravery, at that time, the Yue family army had attacked Suizhou for many days, but there was no progress, but fortunately, the generals of the Yue family army had enough patience and courage, and did not relax in the process of the battle, and finally broke through Suizhou when the Jin State army was exhausted, and Yue Yun was the first soldier to climb the wall of Suizhou.
After breaking through Suizhou, the Yue family army only put a little rectification and went to Dengzhou to fight, at this time, the Jin State army was already insufficient, and under the onslaught of the Yue family army, it could only abandon the city.
Yue Yun was still full of hard work in the battle of Dengzhou, always rushing to the forefront of the battlefield and taking the lead in splitting the city gate of Dengzhou.
It was precisely because Yue Yun was heroic and invincible in the Battle of the Six Counties and won consecutive victories, so the people called Yue Yun "the winner of the official", which means "a general who won a hundred battles".
After winning a big victory in the battle of the six counties, Yue Yun was successfully promoted by Yue Fei to the major protection of the Yue family army, Yue Fei never praised or rewarded Yue Yun, but after Yue Yun made military merits, he should be promoted according to military law, so Yue Yun could become a major general, not because he was Yue Fei's son, but because he was a brave, resourceful, and military meritorious warrior!
If the "Battle of the Six Counties" made Yue Yun show his edge, the "Battle of Yingchang" and the "Great Victory of Haocheng" made Yue Yun famous all over the world!
In the 10th year of Shaoxing, Jin Wushu once again led the army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and the battlefield was in Henan, and the Yue family army that was ordered to resist the enemy army rushed to the forefront again, and Yue Yun was once again put on the battle.
In the battle to defend the city, Yue Yun led the well-trained and indomitable cavalry of the Backbone Army to launch a fierce counterattack against the Jin State army led by Jin Wushu.
Yue Yun as a major general is naturally the pioneer, repeatedly rushing to kill on the battlefield, beheading countless Jin State generals under the horse, successfully holding the city, this battle is the famous "Great Victory of Haocheng" in the Southern Song Dynasty.
The army of the Jin State, which was almost destroyed by Yue Yun and the Legion of the Back, made a comeback after gathering with reinforcements, and their target this time was Yingchang, the 100,000-strong army of the Jin State, and at this time, they were also riveted to crush Yue Yun and the 30,000 Yue Family Army!
Yue Fei was well aware of the hardships and dangers of this battle, so in front of the soldiers, he said to Yue Yun extremely firmly: "This battle can only be won and not defeated!" Otherwise I cut off your head! ”
Yue Yun was not timid in the face of the 100,000 army of the Jin State, and ordered the soldiers to fight the spot, and Yue Yun, as the main general, rushed to the battlefield without hesitation, and successively killed a number of Jin Guo generals, which made the Jin State army fearful, and at the same time greatly enhanced Yue Jiajun's confidence.
In the end, Yue Yun only relied on five hundred cavalry to kill the 100,000-strong army of the Jin State to the point of turning people upside down, and even beheaded Xia Jinwu, the general of the Jin State and the son-in-law of Jin Wushu, and at the same time captured countless weapons of the Jin Army, Yue Fei was extremely pleased after receiving the good news, and Jin Wushu sighed sadly and indignantly: "Defeating the Yue Family Army is simply more difficult than moving mountains!" ”
However, even though Yue Jiajun defeated the 100,000-strong army of the Jin State with 500 cavalry, it was still ordered by Song Gaozong to stop the attack, according to the situation at that time, Yue Jiajun had the determination and ability to drive the Jin State army away, and even take back the sixteen states of Yanyun that the two Song monarchs were hanging on day and night, so why would Song Gaozong let Yue Fei "stop the attack"?
In fact, all this is caused by Song Gaozong's timidity, although Yue Fei and Yue Yun led the Yue family army on the battlefield invincible and invincible, but all this was not seen by Song Gaozong, even if there are often good news, Song Gaozong has always refused to believe that Yue Jiajun can really defeat the Jin State army, after all, the gap in the number of armies between the two sides is too big.
And the traitor Qin Hui also took this opportunity to say to Emperor Gaozong of Song: "If General Yue and Major General Yue kill the army of the Jin State, the Jin State will inevitably resist to the death, and the army of my dynasty has few generals, who dares to guarantee victory in a hundred battles?" It's better to take it when you see it! ”
For Qin Huan's attitude, the disciple of Jin Wushu had long guessed, when Jin Wushu was about to lead the army back to Jin Country, Jin Wushu's disciple stopped Jin Wushu, and he persuaded Jin Wushu: "The prince stays for the time being, it is the next strategy for you to go back at this time!" ”
Jin Wushu was puzzled by this, and said helplessly: "Major General Yue has won more with less, and my army has repeatedly lost battles, how are we going to fight them?" ”
The doorman smiled heartily and said, "Major General Yue himself is difficult to protect, how can he still oppose you?" Jin Wushu was confused when he heard this, and hurriedly took the hand of the doorman and said, "I want to hear about it!" ”
The doorman continued: "From ancient times to the present, there has never been a great general who has made meritorious contributions in the outside world, and the powerful ministers sit idly by in the inner dynasty, watching the great generals have no more limelight, and in the future, I am afraid that they will rely on merit and the favor of the monarch to ascend to a high position and pose a threat to the powerful ministers, how can the powerful ministers be willing?" What's more, the most taboo thing about the previous kings is the Gong Gaozhen Lord, in my opinion, General Yue and Major General Yue are afraid that they are going to make a big deal! ”
These words instantly awakened Jin Wushu, who immediately ordered someone to write a letter to Qin Huan, proposing to exchange "Yue Fei's first rank" for the peace of the Southern Song Dynasty, otherwise the Jin State army vowed to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.
As the most powerful traitor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Huizong had long been murderous to Yue Fei, and after receiving Jin Wushu's letter, he told Emperor Gaozong of Song that he hoped that Emperor Gaozong of Song would order to stop Yue Fei's attack in order to protect the peace of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the timid Emperor Gaozong of Song adopted Qin Huizong's suggestion at that time, and despite Yue Fei's arguments, Emperor Gaozong of Song still insisted that Yue Fei return to the dynasty.
At that time, the control of the sixteen states of Yanyun was handed over by the Tang Dynasty, and the Liao Dynasty controlled the sixteen states of Yanyun for hundreds of years, and now the sixteen states of Yanyun are in front of them, but the monarch ordered "class teachers to return to the dynasty", and the Yue family army was indignant.
In order to get rid of Yue Fei's scourge, Qin Hui and Zhang Jun planned the "unwarranted" case, so how did Yue Fei and Yue Yun deal with it?
At that time, Wang Gui, the commander of the Yue family's army, was somewhat dissatisfied with the harsh Yue Fei, and under Zhang Jun's threat, Wang Gui agreed to falsely accuse Yue Fei. At the same time, Yue Fei'ai bought Wang Jun, Zhang Xian's deputy commander, who took the lead in reporting Zhang Xian's rebellion, resulting in Zhang Xian's innocent arrest.
Zhang Jun knew that Zhang Xian was Yue Fei's love general, and naturally would not cooperate with him easily, so he tortured Zhang Xian to force Zhang Xian to report Yue Fei, but Zhang Xian was unwilling to frame Yue Fei after suffering all the hardships, and Zhang Jun forged Zhang Xian's confession at the behest of Qin Huan, and this sealed confession also directly implicated Yue Yun.
Qin Huan's ultimate goal is Yue Fei, but if it is directly aimed at Yue Fei, I am afraid that it will arouse Song Gaozong's suspicion, so Qin Hui chose to start with Zhang Xian and Yue Yun first.
In the forged Zhang Xian's confession, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian plotted to rebel in detail, Yue Yun was arrested and imprisoned, and Qin Hui also ordered people to torture Yue Yun. Because Zhang Xian and Yue Yun shouted their throats in order to seek justice, Zhang Jun was never able to get their confessions, so Qin Hui had to order someone to arrest Yue Fei without any evidence.
In the process of hearing the case, He Zhu, the chief judge of Dali Temple, found that Yue Fei, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian had all been wronged, so he reported to Qin Hui truthfully, but he did not know that Qin Hui was the one who wanted to kill Yue Fei unjustly, and Qin Hui ordered that Wan Yue be in charge of hearing the case instead.
Who are these ten thousand people? Why did Qin Hui name him to try Yue Fei's case? In fact, this Wan Yue was originally Qin Huan's henchman, he had been attached to Qin Hui for many years at that time, he was also a traitor that Yue Fei had always looked down on, Yue Fei had impeached him many times, and now that Yue Fei fell into his hands, could he still have a way to live?
Although he couldn't provide evidence of Yue Fei's rebellion, Qin Hui still bit Yue Fei's rebellion to death, and even replied to Han Shizhong, who came to question.
According to historical records, there are two ways to say this, some scholars believe that "unwarranted" means "is there no evidence of Yue Fei's rebellion", and some scholars believe that it is "evidence of Yue Fei's rebellion, maybe there is".
But no matter which way, Yue Fei must have been wrongfully killed, and on the day Yue Fei was tortured and died in Dali Temple, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were also pushed to the execution ground, but Emperor Gaozong of Song did not order to kill Yue Yun, why did he change his will?
During the trial of Yue Fei's rebellion case, Qin Hui did not blow the wind in Song Gaozong's ears, and repeatedly requested that Yue Fei be killed. At this time, Qin Hui was the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were countless henchmen under him, and the officials who spoke and interceded for Yue Fei were basically blocked by Qin Huan, and they couldn't even see Song Gaozong, and the folds that interceded for Yue Fei were also taken down by Qin Hui first.
Because officials such as Wednesday Wei and Li Ruopu of the Dali Temple all believed that Yue Yun was "wrongly beheaded", the sentence against Yue Yun was only a fine, degrading an official and exile, and Qin Hui was very dissatisfied with this verdict, and when he found the chief inquisitor Wan Li Xuan, he ordered Wan Li Xun to add "love and repetition" to the verdict.
Under the planning of Qin Huan, Yue Fei's subordinate Wang Gui took the lead in reporting Yue Fei's plot to rebel, while Zhang Xian's subordinate Wang Jun reported Zhang Xian and Yue Yun for rebellion, but there was no evidence of Zhang Xian and Yue Yun's collusion, plus Qin Hui killed Yue Fei as the "culprit", so in the process of sentencing, Yue Fei could only be sentenced to death, but Zhang Xian and Yue Yun could not be sentenced to death.
Qin Hui knew that Yue Yun and his father Yue Fei had the same heart, they were both upright generals, and if they didn't get rid of Yue Yun, it would always be a scourge for Qin Huan, so Qin Hui was also determined not to kill Yue Yun.
As for the four words "Love Repeat" that Qin Hui ordered, it was actually to remind Song Gaozong that Yue Yun was Yue Fei's eldest son and a major general of Yue Jiajun, so Yue Yun's rebellion and other generals' rebellion could not be generalized, because Yue Yun's crime was serious, Yue Yun should be "added to the crime", and he must be dealt with severely in order to set an example!
It was precisely because of the four words "Love Repeating Judgment" that Yue Yun, who was originally sentenced to exile, was ordered by Emperor Gaozong of Song to be dealt with by "military law".
On December 29, 11, Shaoxing, Yue Fei was killed in Dali Temple, and Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were guillotined, and it is said that on the day Yue Yun was beheaded, no sound could be heard in the supposed noisy city, and there was not even a single onlooker on the street.
The people of the Southern Song Dynasty were well aware of Yue Fei and Yue Yun's grievances, and their reactions after the death of Yue Fei's father and son were clearly recorded in many historical materials.
"The Legend of Song Shi Qin Juniper" said that "the world is wronged, and those who hear it are weeping", "The Legend of Song Shi Wan Li" said that "Fei's father and son died with the constitution, and the world was wronged", "The Three Dynasties Northern Alliance Compilation" said that "the world hears it, and there are tears in sorrow", "The Legend of Yuehou" says that "everyone who hears it in the world weeps, down to the three-foot child, they all complain about Qin Juniper"...
From these records, it can also be seen that the deaths of Yue Fei and Yue Yun brought great blows and pains to the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the deaths of Yue Fei and Yue Yun's father and son were actually "ancient injustices"!
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